John Snow <[email protected]> writes: [...] > On 07/20/2017 03:53 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> blockdev-add and migrate-set-parameters overload empty strings to mean >> something entirely different. See my memo "qapi: Stop abusing >> "special" values for something entirely different" for details. >> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg04526.html >> >> This series deprecates these usages of "" in favour of JSON null. >> Because we're so close to the 2.10 freeze, the implementation is >> intentionally stupid: rewrite null to "" at first opportunity. The >> proper way to do it would be rewriting "" to null, but that requires >> fixing up code to work with null. There are TODO comments for that. >> I'm willing to take care of them in the next development cycle. >> > > Did this get dropped in favor of a more comprehensive 2.11 fix?
This is the stupid solution for 2.10. TODO comments in PATCH 05+08-10 mark the spots that could use cleanup. I hope to get to them in 2.11. [...]
